You have been taken in by a campaign of lies from right-wing
con artists out only for total domination of the people. It's
long overdue we show up conservatives as the liars they are.

America, we understand the reason you are suspicious of liberals
and their motives: you have been lied to by conservatives,
or more appropriately, fascists, who do not have your best
interest in mind. You have been force-fed an endless stream
of misinformation, deliberate anti-truths, half-truths, and
untruths, by a tiny minority of powerful, anti-democratic
(small d), un-American and anti-American forces whose sole
purpose is to trick you into surrendering your rights and
personal freedoms, all in the name of preserving and protecting
freedom and democracy for future generations.

Conservatives have taken for themselves all that is good
and right about liberalism, namely, patriotism, religion,
siding with the underdog, and free enterprise within reason,
and have projected their moral bankruptcy of treachery, selfishness,
greed, belligerence, murderous hatred, and dictatorial repression
onto liberals, making the left a convenient scapegoat and
perverting the meaning of "liberal" from the badge of honor
it once was, making it sound like a dirty word. You have been
sucker-punched by a right-wing scam that manipulates your
minds by manipulating the English language; you have been
lied to-no wonder you're confused. Those lies have been peppered
with half-truths not only to attack liberals, but also to
attack ordinary patriotic, freedom-loving Americans like you.
Today's right wing of the Republican Party, like the Fascists
of Italy and the Nazis of Germany during the 1930's and early
'40's, are as patriotic as was Benedict Arnold; as faithful
to God as was Judas; as protective of life as was Theodore
Bundy; as freedom-loving as was King George III; as tolerant
of differences as the KKK. In short, the right is judging
the left by itself; the conservative pot is calling the liberal
kettle black.

Conservatives have hijacked patriotism, twisting our love
of America to mean a mindless, superficial display of flag-waving,
designed to mask their un-American hatred for our Constitutional
rights and basic liberties. They demand blind allegiance and
unquestioning obedience to Republican presidents as proof;
the further right they are, the more they insist that we the
people surrender our right to question government. Yet they
don't extend this demand for allegience to a Democratic President;
in fact, they demonize liberals, defined as anyone to the
left of Mussolini, Hitler, or Attila the Hun, as the traitors
to the Constitution they are.

They have perverted religion and morality, especially Christian
morality, for their own selfish gain, and took advantage of
your faith in God to acquire power. You have been hoodwinked
into thinking G.O.D. means G.O.P., when in fact nothing is
further from the truth. You have been turned against your
neighbor because he happens to be of a different ethnic group,
race, religion, political party, sexual orientation, disability,
or income level. Even your clergyman doesn't urge you to love
him or her. You have been told you'd go to Hell if you espoused
women's equality with men (so what if God made the sexes equal
yet with differences), you believed racism was a sin, you
were to show compassion to the poor "losers", down on their
luck by no fault of their own. You have been told that God
hates sinners, when in reality He hates the sin, but loves
the sinner. You have been lied to.

They have taken free enterprise and capitalism and distorted
these noble ideals, so that the very words-free enterprise,
free trade-have come to mean unbridled corporate monopolism.
In other words, they're the only ones free to trade, to buy,
sell, employ (or refuse to employ), to manipulate prices and
wages. You were told that deregulation of cable and utilities
would provide competition in areas where local, regulated
monopolies existed. You were promised lower guaranteed rates,
more choice in providers, and better service; the truth is,
you got none of the above. When cable deregulation became
law, your cable bills went up from under $10 to $30 or more,
and keep going up every year; service outages became more
frequent; the big company swallowed up the smaller ones. The
same holds true for electric deregulation: electric bills
go up with little or no notice, and more often; those "low
rates" came with hidden fees that no average American can
understand. Promises, promises..

They're the ones who complain about being overtaxed, when
many of these multibillion-dollar, multinational corps don't
pay one red cent in taxes; some of them get refunds on taxes
they never paid! Yet they whine for more tax cuts, still more
tax loopholes, and fleece you into going along with their
rob-the-middle-class schemes by suggesting that overstuffing
the wallets of the already superrich will benefit you by saving
you a few dollars a year in taxes (they don't bother to mention
that billionaires will save millions of dollars in taxes).
This is the Big Lie of trickle-down economics: feed the rich
and hope they'll dole out to the peons beneath them - only
the money never reaches your pockets. The truth about trickle-down:
the rich get a golden parachute, while they give you
a golden shower. Meanwhile, you struggle to make ends
meet; your tax bill goes up while that of the richest goes
down; conservatives simply want to shift the tax burden from
those who can afford it to you who can't. Don't let a slick-talking
conservative tell you any different-tax cuts, Republican style,
are parasitic; the millionaires benefit while you are harmed.

Conservatives claim to be tough on crime To prove it, they
have enacted laws that call for the death penalty for crimes
that don't even come close to serial murder, genocide, or
crimes against humanity. Presumption of innocence is not in
their vocabulary-you're accused, you're guilty, and it's up
to you to prove yourself innocent-and even then, you're guilty!
Prosecutors often have withheld evidence that would have shown
the accused to be innocent; they have stacked juries against
(poor) defendants by excluding prospective jurors who don't
readily apply the death penalty, resulting in conviction-prone
juries; defendants are often assigned incompetent attorneys.
You are expected to go along with this outrageous injustice
or else you'll be branded as "soft on crime." Meanwhile, the
tough-on-crime conservatives are the same people who turn
their heads the other way when criminal corporations kill
hundreds, steal millions from investors and/or employees,
sicken thousands of children at a time because of their crimes.
You may have been one of those victimized by not only the
crimes of megacorporations, but also of their impunity, and
the double standard that benefits them at your expense. All
this coming from the party that claims to be pro-life and
pro-family.

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